Sentences with phrase «on a voice vote»
Moreover, the timing of the Gromack donation is tied almost to the day when the primary petitions started to be collected and only about a week after Frank Sparaco's «Constituent Assistant» position was terminated by the Clarkstown Town Board on a motion by Councilman Hoehmann, seconded by Councilwoman Hausner and passed on a voice vote with a third vote from Councilman Borelli in the apparent stunned silence of Councilwoman Shirley Lasker and Supervisor Gromack.
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The Republican - controlled Senate passed the bill on a voice vote with no debate.
Just before approving Walker's tax reduction Feb. 11, Assembly lawmakers approved on a voice vote the exemption for construction companies.
The House Appropriations Committee cleared the $ 3.3 - billion legislative branch spending proposal on a voice vote.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Court of Appeals nominee was approved in the New York State Senate on a voice vote, after an unusually contentious process.
Moniz welcomed today's confirmation of Orr on a voice vote.
The measure, which cleared the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on a voice vote Feb. 14, advanced the same week a report commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that Head Start continue to administer the test — and possibly expand it to cover content areas beyond mathematics and literacy.
Passage of the amendment on May 3, with an ease that caught even its proponents by surprise, came on a voice vote with just three members on the Senate floor.
It was overwhelmingly defeated on a voice vote.
The Assembly did so on a voice vote.
The bill was endorsed by the House Education committee and passed the full House on a voice vote.
HR 2066, which was approved on a voice vote May 1 by the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee, would allow school officials to use any «reasonable approach» to meeting the guidelines.
Johnson did not incorporate those changes into an amendment, however, and the bill passed on a voice vote.
The Regents approved the proposal on a voice vote — with Tony Evers and Janice Mueller dissenting.
After the UNFCCC agreement, also known as the Rio Treaty, was submitted to the U.S. Senate by the George H.W. Bush administration, Senators ratified it in October 1992 on a voice vote with no debate, just as they rushed to leave Washington before the November election.
There are ways to do it on a voice vote if Speaker Ryan chooses to do that,» she insisted.
Minutes later, on a voice vote, they did.
Overcoming a thicket of procedural barriers, they won a signature victory tonight as the Senate unanimously approved, on a voice vote, an overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
In May 2015, on a voice vote, lawmakers approved a bipartisan bill (H.R. 1119) from the science committee that would simply create a working group within the interagency National Science and Technology Council within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to review existing federal policies.
Yesterday the House Appropriations Subcommittee approved its FY 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) spending bill, which covers NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Commerce, on a voice vote.
The House backed the bill by a vote of 363 to 47, while the Senate approved it on a voice vote.
HR 845, passed Feb. 10 on a voice vote, would wipe out $ 100 million in appropriations intended for repairing and renovating public school...
House Education Committee Passes Special Needs ESA Bill February 26, 2015 by Grant Callen Today, the Education Committee in the House of Representatives passed The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act (SB 2695) on a voice vote.
The Cantor amendment was ultimately passed on a voice vote.
The Democrats opposed to the bill offered no amendments, and the bill was passed on a voice vote.
On a voice vote (no record) they voted to impose a two - year moratorium on the sale of the AR - 15.